A group of infantry recruits in Fort Polk, LA ends their training in Tigerland - a swamp that serves as a substitute for Vietnam. Yet with tensions running high and personalities clashing the war might begin before they finish training. -- Chris Kavan

Quick Movie Reviews

This small-scale war film is interesting in that it foregoes the usual large battle sequences for a focus on the more quiet tensions that men preparing for combat undergo. Colin Farrell gives a breakout performance that is fueled by anger and fear and is as emotionally raw as anything he's done to date.

Full Movie Reviews

Colin Farrell plays an army recruit in basic training for a tour in Vietnam, all the while bucking the system and looking for a way out. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Schumacher is a hack. Hack, hack, hackety haaack! All he ever does is regurgitate the ideas of others in a rather more bland and insipid way. Here he obviously saw Saving Private Ryan and thought to himself "Ah sure would like to make me one of them purdy war pictures a-hyuk, a-hyuk!" and set about copying it's pseudo-documentary style. Except instead of a gritty war story, he just rips off every boot camp film in existence from Full Metal Jacket to An Officer And A Gentleman. Cue abusive stereotypical Sergeants bellowing a stream of swear words and cliched threats at the usual collection of recruits; insubordin...